or SWANWICK, a market-town of England, Dorsetshire, on a bay of the same name, N.E. of St Alban's Head, 22 miles E.S.E. of Dorchester. It consists of one main street, and has an old church, with a tower 80 feet high, Independent and Methodist chapels, a library, and baths. Many of the people are employed in the neighbouring quarries of Purbeck stone; others in plaiting straw and making buttons. Swanage is visited for the sake of sea-bathing; the climate is mild, and the bay is very beautiful. Pop. 2189.